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From Below

by Darcy Coates

A wreck waiting in the deep

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    Praise from Booklist

    Booklist describes the book as “Creepy, claustrophobic, and thoroughly frightening.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A wreck waiting in the deep

The disappearance of the SS Arcadia becomes the starting point for a documentary dive into a maritime mystery: the ship was lost during an ordinary voyage, leaving behind only a garbled emergency message, and its wreck is found decades later far from its intended route. Cove and her team descend to document the hull and investigate what happened. The ocean setting makes the expedition’s practical limits—especially dwindling oxygen and the wreck’s confined interior—part of the danger, while the description frames the ship itself as a source of supernatural threat. The premise brings together shipwreck exploration, unanswered questions about a vanished crew, and horror beneath the sea.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Horror readers interested in ghost stories and supernatural threats.
  • Readers who enjoy maritime mysteries and shipwreck settings.
  • Readers drawn to confined, underwater expedition scenarios.

Themes

Shipwrecks and maritime mysterySupernatural horrorIsolation and confinementSurvival under pressure

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Book overview

"Creepy, claustrophobic, and thoroughly frightening." --Booklist

Darcy Coates, author of The Haunting of Ashburn House, pulls us under for mesmerizing ghost story about a documentary dive team that discovers a terrifying secret.

Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...

Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course...a silent graveyard deep beneath the ocean's surface, eagerly waiting for the first sign of life.

Cove and her dive team have been granted permission to explore the Arcadia's rusting hull. Their purpose is straightforward: examine the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable ship vanished.

But the Arcadia has not yet had its fill of death, and something dark and hungry watches from below. With limited oxygen and the ship slowly closing in around them, Cove and her team will have to fight their way free of the unspeakable horror now desperate to claim them.

Because once they're trapped beneath the ocean's waves, there's no going back.

Also By Darcy Coates:

  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker
  • The Haunting of Ashburn House
  • The Haunting of Blackwood House
  • Craven Manor
  • The House Next Door
  • Voices in the Snow
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